everyone’s always like “you can’t put a ham sandwich in the woods with a string tied to it to find your true love jordan,” and never like, “I found your ham sandwich and followed the string to you and never imagined this would end in true love you’re so beautiful please let me pay all your bills.”

They are back and they are doing a pattern thing (which I didn’t know they did)!

I love San Francisco.

Hello. I just found out that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”, and now I need you lot to know that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”. youtu.be/voqCQSDAcn8

Republicans quickly adjourned the House from session today to prevent Democrats from introducing a War Powers resolution against Trump's war in Iran.

A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.028 (lookback time 397.0 million years) with coordinates (233.06989, 18.67468). 48 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

This is the most Philadelphia post I’ve read that didn’t involve Gritty (Unless…)

Magikarpe diem.

This fall! Way better than Alito’s memoir wwnorton.com/books/978132...

The answer was 27 days btw.

Letting coaches teach history and civics in America was a fucking mistake

Birb.

Nothing I could say about the GOP base is as illustrative as the fact that Trump understands that posting black people in what his audience considers a “white space” will make them incandescently angry bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is really all they have left. "We have a pointless and criminal war pushing gas prices through the roof and the global economy to the brink but at least the government isn't treating trans people like they're human beings" will be the entirety of the midterm message.

[The Apollo 11 plaque] reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock. - Carl Sagan

My Fastmail account is about to turn 10k! #inboxtenthousand

girl take us with you

The 30 Rockification of real life is nearing completion

Shoot for the moon. If you miss, reload and fire again. The moon must be stopped at all costs.

The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

I made a thing.

luv 2 transmed

OH: "is it dugtrios or dugs trio?"

They are dismantling the Forest Service: open.substack.com/pub/moretha...

What's your favorite toast-topping made by bugs? I guess mine is probably honey.

The central organizing principle behind the Trump administration is white supremacy. The corruption just made it worth Trump's while.

Boston University’s student paper, The Daily Free Press, reports about the multiplication of pride flags on campus following the administration’s attempted crackdown on free speech.

I wrote a blog post for Honeycomb and shared a little bit about my journey from observability champion to Honeycomb customer to Bee. Beyond the specifics of the journey, something I want to highlight is why this shit matters so much to me. 🧵 www.honeycomb.io/blog/from-cu...

lol, glad to see even NASA has to deal with clock skew #artemis2 #nasa

It's weird to think that nobody has stepped on the moon in my lifetime (yet!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_Uj...

A lot of Trump voters I spoke to during the campaign were convinced the Wrong People were getting free stuff and that Trump would make sure the Right People (them) got it. bsky.app/profile/fact...

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

Kagan: "You're using some pretty obscure sources to get to this." "obscure sources" is, apparently, Kagan's euphemism for FUCKING OPENLY RACISTS SOURCES WHO WERE DEVOUT WHITE SUPREMACISTS

Barrett now asks about the "messy" applications of birthright citizenship, asking how the government would deal with "foundlings" where the parents aren't known. SG starts by deferring to a statute on that and Barrett responds immediately with "yeah yeah yeah yeah but what about the Constitution"?

Barrett starts with jus soli v. jus sanguinis. She notes that "Jus soli was very generous on the soil." She says "one thing that's puzzling me about your arguments ... " is that if they meant a jus sanguinis argument in which the citizenship of the parents matters, why wouldn't they have said that?

Gorsuch follows up: "Do you think Native Americans today are birthright citizens under your test?" SG says no. Gorsuch responds that because his test is domicile of the parents, so why not? Wouldn't tribal Indians domiciled in the US be birthright citizens? The SG SAYS YES, THEY PROBABLY WOULD BE.

Gorsuch says SG's points are "well-taken," but notes that the lead DISSENTER in Wong Kim Ark gave a series of lectures afterwards, where Justice Harlan expressly said that temporary sojourners get citizenship under Wong Kim Ark and said "I was one of the minority, and of course I was wrong."

Roberts? on the SG's argument that "birthright tourism" is a serious problem that should result in reinterpretation of the Constitution: "It's a new world, it's the same Constitution"

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship

per basically every lawyer on my feed, the government seems absolutely cooked on the birthright citizenship case and the only question is whether this is 8-1 (alito) or 7-2 (alito and thomas) and this is why I’m not sure that even a hypothetical justice aileen cannon would be worse than sam alito

Every time I see a cis person lecturing trans people to "not give up hope!" or "don't stop fighting!" I wonder what trans people they're seeing because I have never met a trans person who, even in the depths of despair, was like "we should just lie down and die." Like, who are you seeing giving up?

I want to thank the administration for getting dunked on so hard that nobody will bother questioning birthright citizenship again for however long the republic has left.

Today, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on Trump's executive order to eliminate birthright citizenship. The president does not get to decide who is a citizen on a whim — the Constitution does. It's simple: if you’re born in the United States, you’re a citizen.

This is fine.

Birthright citizenship is the most plaintext zero bullshit amendment that has ever existed, there's zero room for outside interpretation: All persons born or naturalized in the US, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the US and of the State wherein they reside.

Also, everytime I hear "Jus sanguinis" (which is the idea that citizenship follows the blood of the parent not the soil that the child is born on), I think... "Man, beating Lillith in Diablo 4 was really hard man. She probably believe in Jus sanguinis too."

All right, live whatevering of Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case. Arguing for the bad guys is US Solitictor General John (voice is an immutable characteristic so let's show some respect) Sauer. For the plaintiffs it's ACLU legal director Cecillia Wang.